Teacher Name: laila merriman

Student Name:

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CATEGORY

Neatness

Story is typed,
clean, not
wrinkled, and
is easy to read
with no
distracting
error
corrections. It
was done with
pride.

Story is neatly
hand-written,
clean, not
wrinkled, and
is easy to read
with no
distracting
error
corrections. It
was done with
care.

Story is typed
and is
crumpled or
slightly
stained. It may
have 1-2
distracting
error
corrections. It
was done with
some care.

Storyr is typed
and looks like
it had been
shoved in a
pocket or
locker. It may
have several
distracting
error
corrections. It
looks like it
was done in a
hurry or stored
improperly.

Ideas

Ideas were
expressed in a
clear and
organized
fashion. It was
easy to figure
out what the
story was
about.

Ideas were
Ideas were
The letter
expressed in a somewhat
seemed to be
pretty clear
organized, but a collection of
manner, but
were not very unrelated
the
clear. It took
sentences. It
organization
more than one was very
could have
reading to
difficult to
been better.
figure out what figure out what
the story was the story was
about.
about.

Length

The Story is 10 The Story is 8- The story is 5or more

9 sentences.
7 sentences.
sentences.

The story is
less than 5
sentences.

Content
Accuracy

The story
contains at
least 5
accurate facts
about the
character.

The letter
contains no
accurate facts
about the
character.

The story
contains 3-4
accurate facts
about the
character.

The story
contains 1-2
accurate facts
about the
character.

Grammar &
Writer makes
spelling
no errors in
(conventions) grammar or
spelling.

Writer makes
1-2 errors in
grammar
and/or spelling.

Writer makes
3-4 errors in
grammar
and/or spelling

Writer makes
more than 4
errors in
grammar
and/or
spelling.